Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-06-16
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS.

Rev. Frank w. Evans, the well-known
Iowa orator, is to be the talker at the
Wapello celebration on the Fourth.
Hon. John w. Akers, Superintendent
of Public Instruction, will be Fort
Dodge's Fourth of July orator.
Guthrie Center is enjoying a fine
growth this season. Five brick business
houses. THE Hotel National" and other
important improvements are being rapidly
pushed to completion.
The Davenport Democrat, Gazette says:
A report quite well authenticated is cir
culated that arrangements are about COM
pleted whereby the International Dis
tillery at Des Moines, the Iowa City
Distillery, and the Distillery at Atlantic
Iowa, are to be removed to Omaha,
Nebraska, or st. Joseph, Missouri. The
entire expense of the transportation is to
be sustained by the Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific railroad
The State Board of Health has received
Its marriage, birth and death record for
1SS5-filling nineteen large volumes
Each of these are duplicates of the records
kept in each county vault, so that in case
fire destroys the county record, it can be
supplied by reference to those in pos.
session of the State Board.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed with the Secretary of State by the
Farmers Trust Company of Sioux City,
with capital stock of one million dol
lars The incorporators are Messrs. G.
B. Shaw, c. Ii. Fargo, r. Sayer, j. l..
Lombard and L. L. Lobdell. Articles
were also filed by the Dubuque Boot and
Shoe Manufacturing company, of Du-
buque, with capital stock of $25, COO in
corporated by A. w. Sears, Louis Rein
icke. H. G. Bechtel and w. E. Fuller
A telegram received at Davenport, June
10, from Santa Fe, N. NJ, announces the
death of Hon. James Thorington. He
left Davenport three weeks ago for the
benefit of his health. Mr. Thorington
was born in Alabama in 1918. In 1889
he went to Davenport, being one of the
earliest settlers of that region. lie was
mayor of the city four consecutive terms,
from 1912 to 1916. In 1866 he was elect
ed to Congress, Iowa at that time having
but two representatives. Later he was
sheriff and clerk of Scott county for
several terms each. In June, 1857, he
was appointed by President Grant Consul
at Aspinwall, and held the position eleven
years He was prominently connected
with the orders of Masonry and Odd
Fellowship.
A runaway team at Davenport dashed
into group of little girls, severely in.
juring two OF them, and had il not been
for the presence Of mind Of an officer
several would have been killed
The cut-worm, which is playing havoc
with the corn crop in southeastern Iowa.
is not the old style worm, II is long,
slim. web spinning worm, a sort of q dude
among its kind, that is to blame for all
the trouble
A Burlington young man, DESTROYS of
fame, cut his name on n bench in pub
lie park. 1t resulted in having his name
enrolled in good, durable ink on the court
docket, and just opposite was set down
1856, which the young man paid.
-Four Davenport young men spent
night at the Donahoe house, said to be
inhabited by spooks. The nearest ap.
proach to ghost they could find was an
able bodied skunk with wonderful elo.
qucnce in every movement.
A Villisca special, June 8, says: Thomas
o Brien, man employed in Hines con
struction gang now at work on the iron
bridge west of town, was drowned at
o'clock p m. yesterday. He was at work
getting drift-wood away from the bridge
when he jumped into the water and i'm
mediately went under, only coming to
the surface once afterward, and then
making no effort to save himself, al
though he was good swimmer. The
supposition of his fellow workmen, and
also of Mr.. Hines, the boss is that it was
case of suicide. He has been in bad
luck for the past four or FIVE years. He
had been switching for the 90" for a
number Of years, until last winter, when
he became deaf while working at Red
Oak. He had only been at work here
about three weeks, and had lately told
some of the workmcn that he would kill
himself. He was about twenty five or
thirty years of age, and, as far as known,
had no relatives. O'Brien's body was
found this morning near the bridge.
The First Presbyterian church of Cedar
Rapids celebrated its fortieth anniversary
by four days session.
Col. w. p Hepburn has been placed on
the programme TO give the Grafton at
Marion on the Fourth of July.
Every candidate for county offices in
Dallas county, except one, was present in
Dallas Center on Decoration Day.
A very sad accident occurred about six
miles from Pella at about o'clock on
the afternoonof June 0. While num-
Der of farmer boys were out fishing and
swimming in the Des Moines river about
one mile below the Wabash railroad
bridge, Dick and Morie Meadow, aged
IA and II years respectively. and Bud
Thomas, aged IA years, suddenly got into
fifteen feet of water, and as they could
not swim, all three were drowned. The
bodies of the two Meadow boys were re-
covered by six o'clock, but the other
body has not yet been found. The father
of the last named boy was killed in run
away accident but few years ago.
A Cedar Rapids woman arranged
marriage between her thirteen year.old
daughter and man old enough to be the
girls grandfather, on condition that the
man would support the family. The
bridegroom kept his promise for week,
and then left for parts unknown.
The Burlington prophet sends chill
through the spinal column of the country
by announcing: There is bare posi-
bilitv of frost abOut Spntember A Int